St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-01
Grand Forks County.

LARIMoRE, Sept. 2S.-Farm produce
has for term of years been so low in
price as to barely cover the cost of pro-
duction, and this being the case, it is at
once evident that he who succeeds in
gathering living from the soil is doing
well enough, and who is gathering more
can only do so at the expense of extra
ordinary talent in managing and the eX
erciSe of the closest economy.
A somewhat extensive observation of
the farming interests of different parts
of the United States has led me to OBJ
serve that Dakota is fully up to the best
section, and far aheas- of many, in the
richness of its soil and the small eX-
pense required to get the land under
cultivation. have now been settled
five years in the vicinity of Larimore,
and have found all the country fully up
to all that has been claimed for it.
There are many people who think we
cannot raise corn here, but that is M S
take. / have not known single seast II
in the five have spent here that some
of my neighbOrs did not raise some corn.
The present season has been one pre-
eminently favorable for its growth. We
have had the table provided with sweet
corn ever since August 1St. and that of
the finest quality l ever saw. I sowed
some dwarf sweet corn about May 2Sth.
and it now stands about eight feet high
in my garden, and many of the stalks
have five ears in various stages of matu-
rity.
Garden vegetables of all kinds grow
to most marvellous perfection. l have a
patch of potatoes, SIX rods long by three
wide, containing probably One-tenth of
an acre. This ground was MANFRED
slightly and potatoes planted on May
25th. They were cultivated only once
when six inches high. | have fed five
men all the potatoes they needed since
July 18th, and expect to gather more
than two hundred bushels besides.
Many farmers may think this extraOrdi-
nary, but while it may be above the av-
erage, it is not an unusual yield.
Wheat is so low in price that many
farmers are going into stock, which they
can do at moderate expense by saving
straw and feeding it in winter with
roots. l have cut hay this summer that
went five and One-half tons per acre
This was cut from hay suitable for any
kind of stock.
/ have been asked to give my opinion
as to the difference in profit in farming
the old lands of the states and our West
ern prairie. [ would, by way of an
Swer, only ask the attention of any who
desire an answer to such question to
the fact that the Dakota farmer pays IL
cents per annum for Eastern capital,
while the Eastern farmer, as far as my
observation goes, has pretty hard time
to meet his payments at or per cent.
Where does this difference come from?
Not only this, but the country has heart
less sl1inflintS who exact as much as 20
per cent. per anlIum for short time loans.
Who pays it?
Our climate has been widely adver-
tised as the very worst ON the face of
the earth, but this is only notion. [
suffered more from severe and buster
ing wind in March, 1886, in New York
city than l ever did from the same
source in Dakota. The climate is
cold, but it is dry. Clothing will
keep it out, but in a damp cold
no amount of clothing will keep one
warm. The ground freezes about the
middle of November and remains frozen
until about the latter part of March, and
in that time we have very little trouble
from January thaws, or February fresh
cts, or impossible roads on account of
spring mud. Our climate in summer is
moderately warm by day, but the nights
are always cool, so that in all the time [
have been here / have been alwaS able
to sleep soundly at night, which is
something cannot say of my former
home.
We have not as yet succeeded in OBJ
tanning any except few hardy varieties
of fruit that will do well. Strawberries,
raspberries, currants and goosberries,
however, grow to perfection, SO that we
do not miss the larger fruits.
Added to its many other advantages,
we have here sportsman's paradise.
hor lxv riV VI m
for small farm in the East. Wild
ducks and geese abound i'm the spring
| and fall; antelope and deer are found
along the shores of DEVILS Lake and the
timbered country westward.
THOMAS G. BRUYERE.